Cookbooks are a bio-hazard says a UK food safety expert, quoted in The Sun newspaper.
Richard Conroy says cooks run the risk of food poisoning every time they open a cookbook and flip through the pages. Conroy says cookbooks are routinely splattered with small amounts of food, then they are stored on shelves where they grow bacteria.
Even phones and tablets can become contaminated he says.
According to a 2013 study by a UK watchdog group, kitchen electronics were found to have high levels of Stapkphylococcus aureus bacteria.
Cooks should routinely disinfect their electronics and wash hands while using cookbooks.